The Month Ahead -- CPS's Multiple Calendars [img=/assets/blog/200711/1in4.gif F:L]It's almost December, and here are some of the big CPS events coming up that I know about: Arne goes to Boston (this weekend), 5th week progress reports (a week from today), SIP professional development day the day after (woo hoo!). Testing for selective high schools starts on the 15th. Comstat meetings for high school principals continue downtown, but no new construction or school closing announcements in the very near future, I'm told. Applications for selective high schools, magnets, GEAP, etc. are all due on the 21st, which is when winter break begins. Not that you'd know that from the main CPS calendar, of course. Not only is the application process for non-neighborhood schools fairly Byzantine, but you also have to go to three or more different places to find out the deadlines. Sketchy, or at least dumb. What else? Well, we have LSC elections to look forward to in April '08, which means petitions start getting filed pretty soon. Anything else?
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Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 9:27 PM
The Month Ahead -- CPS's Multiple Calendars
Thomas Ramos returns as a LSC Parent Representative at Curie High School and Columbia Explorers Academy at midnight tonight November 30th.
Why is this not front page on the Suntimes and it was only published on the Southwest Herald a few weeks ago. Oh, well.
Congratulations Ramos!!!!!!! Hope you decide to run again at both schools.
Why is this not front page on the Suntimes and it was only published on the Southwest Herald a few weeks ago. Oh, well.
Congratulations Ramos!!!!!!! Hope you decide to run again at both schools.
Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 3:30 AM
The Month Ahead -- CPS's Multiple Calendars
The main CPS calendar? What does that mean. The deadline for magnet school applications is on the CPS print calendar that was distributed to every parent. I'd be the first one to make fun of the "Main CPS Calendar" on anything (after all, last year, 2006-2007, if you remember, they blessed April with 31 days in that document). But the "Main CPS Calendar" clearly indicates that December 21 is the deadline for magnet applications.
What's not indicated for the public anywhere are the deadlines for the charter school "applications" or the dates of the charter school "lotteries." These begin in January 2008. Is this because the charters are being given the lists of the kids from nearby public elementary and high schools with high test scores, so that they can have their marketing departments personally contact every family? But nobody else is even allowed to know that you have to make an application (and get through a "lottery") to get into these public private EMOs?
What's not indicated for the public anywhere are the deadlines for the charter school "applications" or the dates of the charter school "lotteries." These begin in January 2008. Is this because the charters are being given the lists of the kids from nearby public elementary and high schools with high test scores, so that they can have their marketing departments personally contact every family? But nobody else is even allowed to know that you have to make an application (and get through a "lottery") to get into these public private EMOs?
Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 8:55 AM
The Month Ahead -- CPS's Multiple Calendars
good point about the charter deadlines -- check online to find the main CPS calendar, which includes nothing about magnets, selectives, or charters.
Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 10:02 AM
The Month Ahead -- CPS's Multiple Calendars
There's a charter school near where I live (Courtenay Language Arts) and I applied there for my eldest daughter for kindergarten in February. They told me they take admissions on a rolling basis and when they are filled up, they are filled up. We ultimately did not go there, but that's how it worked there a couple of years ago.
Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 11:41 AM
The Month Ahead -- CPS's Multiple Calendars
Courtenay is not a charter school. It is a traditional public school that does not have a traditional attendance boundary and, as a result, manages its own admissions process.
Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 12:37 PM
CPS scheduling at its best!
OK, here's another typical CPS scheduling snafu....want to know when my child's test is for the 7th & 8th grade Acadmic Centers? Thursday December 27th. Yes that's right, the week between Christmas and New Year. At Taft High Sschool....will the heat at Taft be on that week?
What bright individual does the scheduling for these things?
What bright individual does the scheduling for these things?
Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 4:28 PM
The Month Ahead -- CPS's Multiple Calendars
As I understand Courtenay was mainly a SPED school and they opened it up to be more inclusive. It is very very small, and only like 1/2 a block from Ravenswood. I think they may only be pk - 3 (but they have Head Start, Preschool For All and ECSE - or at least they used to.)
Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 7:23 PM
The Month Ahead -- CPS's Multiple Calendars
I am not a reporter. That's the job of Catalyst and this blog to go out there and search and attend LSC meetings like at Steimetz High School.
Did you know a complaint was filed with the Attorney General office on Steimetz in regards to the NCLB Parent Advisory Council?
Did you know a complaint was filed with the Attorney General office on Steimetz in regards to the NCLB Parent Advisory Council?
